Lessons, games & activities about the Sun aimed at ages 9-14. During Solar Week, twice a year, ask scientists about the Sun! Ask here: https://xitter.gq/t.co/x3SrA62Ysq
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If you were looking down at Earth from the International @Space_Station, you would notice that our planet is surrounded by a faint, multicolored glow. This airglow happens where Earth meets space.
go.nasa.gov/38C85EH
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Today, people in parts of the Northern Hemisphere saw a partial or annular solar eclipse! 🌙 Here are a few of our photos from the East Coast. flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot… #SolarEclipse
Did you see the eclipse? Show us your photos!
ALT The Sun is about half-covered by the Moon as it rises above a lighthouse and water
ALT A partial solar eclipse is seen as the Sun rises behind the Delaware Breakwater Lighthouse
ALT A partial solar eclipse is seen duing sunrise behind the US Capitol
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“This work was the very first use of the ICON tidal wind product. The product allowed Xinzhao’s team to calculate the flow of metal ions over Boulder. It’s a great example of how these tides seem to affect everything in space near Earth.” —Thomas Immel, PI of the ICON Mission.
Atmospheric metal layers that appear at dusk and just before dawn seen over Boulder, CO for the first time. Work led by CIRES/@CUBoulder’s Xinzhao Chu, published this week in @theAGU Geophysical Research Letters.
Read the full story ➡️ bit.ly/2TxAxmZ
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Follow along with @NASA_Wallops for updates on tonight’s VIPER sounding rocket launch from Virginia. 🚀 nasa.gov/wallops/2021/featur…
Learn more about the ionosphere, the dynamic region VIPER will study. ⬇️
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Our solar system is filled with a sea of charged particles that flow out from the Sun, called the solar wind. To accompany Earth’s journey sailing this celestial ocean, some of our scientists banded together on a heliophysics sea shanty. 🌊⛵️ Sing along: youtu.be/LP3qzKGh1AM
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Château Pétrus: does a case of top-notch Bordeaux really taste different after being in Space? euronews.com/2021/03/24/chat…
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Today is the #SpringEquinox in the Northern Hemisphere! The twice-yearly equinoxes mark the points in Earth’s orbit when the Sun shines directly on the equator with nearly equal lengths of day and night. Read more: go.nasa.gov/30Yo7VH
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ME 022721-Solar radio astronomy chart showing flare - first I've been able to detect in years! Flare looks like 'shark fin'. 2 stations - NAA in ME; NAU in Puerto Rico. Note diff. day lengths. Solar Cycle 25 is going strong! #NASASolarWeek
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Today from ME - Breezy! Full Sun: Prominences (plasma ejections) lt & rt; Active regions w/sunspots (bright w/dark arcs) low rt & lt; Filament (dark arc) top; blue 'Earth' scale. Close-ups: Sunspots in H-a light rt & lt in pic - zoom to see detail; Filament.#NASASolarWeek
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It’s #SunDay! ☀️ Scientists used data from a trio of @NASA missions to magnetically map the Sun’s chromosphere, a region of the Sun that was observable only during total solar eclipses for decades after its discovery. go.nasa.gov/3r01prw
ALT The Sun's reddish chromosphere peeks out from the edges of the Moon during a total solar eclipse.
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Today from ME Full Sun: WOW! Lg prominences (plasma ejections) bot rt & up lt; Active regions w/sunspots (bright w/dark arcs) up & low rt; Filaments (dark arcs) bot; blue 'Earth' scale. Close-ups: Sunspots in H-a light & detuned (w/umbra, etc.) zoom to see; Lg prom.#NASASolarWeek
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#Teachers of upper elementary and middle school students (grades 5 – 8) in the subjects of history, social studies, and STEAM: Join us for a free #webinar on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Register: smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/…
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Space weather chances ⬆️ tonight, solar wind speed, density, and magnetic field strength are 🆙 & when magnetic field direction (Bz) remains negative chances are good for aurora to reach the 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 border at some point. Share a #backofcamera pic if you're able to see it. Thanks!
ALT Requests for real-time #backofcamera aurora photos with location to help tracking
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✨The future never just happened. It was created. Join us tomorrow, Oct. 23, at 3pm ET for Million Girls Moonshot: Meeting the #Artemis Generation, which features a Q&A with @NASA astronaut @AstroJaws!
👩🚀 Details here ⤵️⤵️
go.nasa.gov/34m5Owk #NASASTEM
ALT Million Girls Moonshot text overlaid on image of astronaut on Moon with Artemis program insignia in background
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I've finally written up a summary of my project examining the diversity of STEM characters in the movies.
Enjoy!
Spoiler Alert: They're not diverse, and we should fix that.
multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/…
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To get ready for #NewYear2021 I recorded a lecture about the astronomy behind how we measure time and construct calendars.
Enjoy!
youtu.be/1k3ZSpt8UgA
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NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth. The missions — EZIE and @NASA’s contribution to @JAXA_en’s EUVST — will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system. go.nasa.gov/37Vk158
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As if it wasn’t already a great to be a heliophysicist - more new missions joining the fleet. A joint endeavor for @nasa and @JAXA_en for the next generation solar mission #EUVST_SolarC and #EZIE, a mission to study Earth’s aurora from @JHUAPL #HelioRocks #HelioShines #ilovemyjob – at Maryland, USA
NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth. The missions — EZIE and @NASA’s contribution to @JAXA_en’s EUVST — will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system. go.nasa.gov/37Vk158
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Happy Solar Week! Cleared very late in ME. Here is today's H-a solar image. Several proms. The active region w/sunspots and a couple of filaments below the active region. I include close-up of active region. Enjoy your week!#NASASolarWeek
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This is what the northern lights look like from inside a U-2 spy plane at 70,000ft. Incredible photos by Ross Franquemont: bit.ly/2D9iR33
